The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.